Mystical Photos of Illuminated Forests in the UK by Ellie Davies
Ellie Davies enchants us with surreal portraits of forests that glow with mystical fairy lights and ominous waves of mist. The London-based abstract photographer creates her captivating shots in natural areas throughout the UK. With the woods as her canvas, fireflies illuminate desolate clearings, and cascading flurries of glitter dust dramatically lit patches of trees.
Davies says she likes to explore images that juxtapose human and natural elements, calling attention to the sharp divide between personal identity and interconnectivity. She does this by positioning out-of-place manmade elements — such as paint, glitter or smoke — within the context of wild landscapes.
“Forests are potent symbols in folklore, fairy tale and myth, places of enchantment and magic as well as of danger and mystery. In more recent history they have come to be associated with psychological states relating to the unconscious,” the artist says. “Against this backdrop, my work explores the ways in which identity is formed by the landscapes we live and grow up in.”
people like to say that superhero movies “aren’t realistic” but what about that time Steve Rogers hurled himself out of a plane without a parachute rather than deal with a friend’s questions about his love life
Legends say that hummingbirds float free of time, carrying our hopes
for love, joy and celebration. Like a hummingbird, we aspire to hover
and savor each moment as it passes; embrace all that life has to offer
and to celebrate the joy of every day. The hummingbird’s delicate
grace reminds us that life is rich, beauty is everywhere, every
personal connection has meaning and that laughter is life’s sweetest
creation. –Papyrus
I…Ah…hmm.
Look, it’s a great photo. The photographer kicked butt. They should be very proud of this photo.
But hummingbirds are not carrying your hopes for joy around. I am sorry. Have you met hummingbirds? Hummingbirds believe strongly that they should be eighteen feet tall and have flamethrowers. They are a half ton of pugnacious wrapped up in a half ounce of feathers. Given the choice, hummingbirds would fly around with “Ride of the Valkyries” blasting out of tiny speakers on their wings, putting the eyes out of their enemies.
They do not fear humans, but if they learn that humans will provide feeders, they will become very demanding. They are fiercely territorial. They are…kind of jerks, actually.
Also, there are papers indicating that female hummingbirds engage in what can only be termed “nectar-based prostitution” where they trade sexual favors to males in return for access to particularly rich nectar sources.
If your hopes for love involve nectar and your hopes for joy involve crushing your foes, seeing them driven before you, hearing the lamentations of their nestlings, etc, then possibly the hummingbird may carry them around, otherwise…uh…have you considered vultures? Vultures are very pleasant, affectionate, and social birds. You should probably give them your hopes and dreams. They would be better at it.
Did I mention it’s a great photo?
VULTURES, NOW.
this is Jack.
Jack (full name: Jack Sparrow) lives at the Hawk Conservancy. (He’s missing some toes because he was rescued from Vulture Smugglers.)
When you interact with Jack, you can tell he’s at about the level of … something between a ferret and a dog. Funny short little attention span, and a weird face to look at, but a human reads him as curious, friendly and interested in people.
When you meet a working vulture, you realize that they are definitely a wild predatory animal and very instinctive, but with a
consciousness that extends to interest in their surroundings; like, he’s
very much focused on THE SNACK, but before and after the SNACKTIME he
also wants to have a chat about your day and look at your face and peer into your camera and ask to look at the pictures you took and then say “hey now take one where I’m doing duckface” and you’re like “ok Jack go ahead”
Contrast with owls, which are typically pretty, but which are basically as interactive as a pop-up ad. They exist to land on things and eat them. They are not complicated. Vultures are hey-whatcha-doin. They’re yeah I’m a psychopomp but my real hobby is DJ-ing. They’d like to couchsurf next time they’re in town. You’d let them.
I would give Jack my dreams to carry. He would hold them well, in his big black lovely inky eyes, in his broken gentle feet.
Why is the last line making me tear up?
What a sweet vulture.
This is the best thing I have read today tbh
Haven’t reblogged this in a while. Jack is awesome.
Jack, Jack of my heart.
Vultures are AMAZING. They can be sweet, kind, sociable fluffernutters.
WHY IS THE FILIBUSTER NOT ALL OVER MY DASH. Six hours and they’re still going. You go, Senator Murphy (D-CT).
Senate Dems are taking a stand to support background check measures, which are supported by 92% of Americans, including 87% of Republicans, and to oppose the terrorism loophole that enabled the Orlando shooter to buy an AR-15 with the ease of buying a fucking pizza. These are no-shit common-sense bipartisan measures that have ONLY been prevented because of the massive financial influence of the NRA.
at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents
Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.
whAT THE FUCK
I’m too tired for this
Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.
T’ be or not t’be, y’all.
Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.
Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.
I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.
While it’s true that Shakespeare’s English sounded more like American English in some ways than contemporary British English, it’s not entirely correct to assume that the American accent is the same as it was in the 17th Century. First, watch this video of the Crystals discussing differences between Shakespeare’s pronunciation and modern English, and compare it with contemporary American English. You’ll see it’s still quite different. Second, England had an enormous amount of linguistic diversity, and settlers came to America from all parts of England. Not all of them were speaking Shakespeare’s English. There was no standardized language in the 18th Century– what later became the standardized form you hear nowadays on the BBC emerged from the dialect spoken in and around London. There’s a thing in linguistics called levelling, where people who speak different varieties of the same language gradually shift their speech patterns to accommodate their friends and neighbors until eventually a standardized form of the language emerges, which linguists call a “koiné”. By the early 1700s movements of people throughout the colonies were constant enough to facilitate this standardization to the point where three of the main varieties of the American dialect we speak today were already beginning to emerge: a standard form, a “Boston” form, and a Southern form. By the time of the American Revolution, American English sounded similar to the English we speak today, with the exception that certain regional dialects, such as New York and Southern, probably were not yet as distinct as they are now. The parts of America that had the most contact with England, such as New York, Boston, and the South, remained under the influence of British English longer and as Britain lost the rhotic “r”, so did the speech of American merchants, planters, and socialites who wished to emulate the prestigious speech of England.
ok but i want luis from ant man to do a recap of all the mcu films just before infinity wars comes out????
okay so like, it all started
with Iron Man right? like you know Iron Man, dude who doesn’t know know Iron
Man, you feel me? anyway so like before Tony Stark was Iron Man he was just
Tony Stark, you know? but like he was still fly as hell, like dude had a different
chick every night and like that’s not my style but you know game recognize
game. so anyway Tony was like, mad cool and always partying and making badass
weapons and shit.
but then he like got attacked
by his own weapons and he came back and was like ‘Bro, I gotta stop making
these weapons, they do bad shit in the wrong hands’ you know? so he tells his
company they gotta stop but then he makes the Iron Man suit and the bald dude
who used to run his company is like ‘bro, I need that suit and also I tried
to kill you’ and it’s not cool, man, it’s like, dang this guy ran his company
and shit and now he’s gonna do him like this?
but like, Tony’s Iron Man so
he wins and stuff and then this dude with an eyepatch is like, ‘yo, homie,
I need you on this team, help a brother out’ but Tony’s like ‘nah dude I
work alone’ and eyepatch guy is like ‘mhm’ and like you know that’s not
gonna be the end of that.
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